Set how strictly your plan is scored

You're a few weeks into the plan and the score on your weekly review reads off — high adherence on days you swapped half the foods, low on days the macros landed clean. The mode is wrong for how you actually use this plan. One sentence tells the agent how to weigh it.

What the agent needs to hear

Behind your sentence, the agent works backwards to two pieces: which plan and which mode. If you only have one plan active, naming the mode is enough — « put me in flexible » lands. If you have several saved, name the plan: « Q2 cut in structured », « lean bulk in flexible ». The agent confirms before saving.

The mode is one of three: flexible, structured, or default. The names describe how the score behaves — you say what kind of plan this is and the agent maps the weighting.

What each mode means in practice

Flexible is for the IIFYM mindset — the macros are the contract, the foods are suggestions. Swap chicken for fish, rice for potatoes, broccoli for spinach, and the plan doesn’t care so long as the daily numbers land. Nail the macros and you’re in the green, even on days you ignored every food the plan listed.

Structured is the opposite — a prescriptive plan where the specific foods matter. A coach picked them for reasons that don’t show up in the macros: timing around training, micronutrient coverage, allergens. Swap out half the meals and the score tanks even if the macros line up, because the plan’s value is the foods, not just the totals.

Default is the middle ground. It rewards hitting macros most, but penalizes drift from the listed foods more than flexible does. If you don’t have a strong opinion about the plan, it’s a sensible starting point.

How the change propagates

The new mode applies immediately to live scoring — today’s progress, the daily card, the current weekly review. Any snapshot the system closes from now on uses the new weighting.

Snapshots already closed keep the mode they were graded with at the time. A closed snapshot is a historical record of how you did under the rules in force then; changing the mode now doesn’t rewrite the past.

For coaches this matters most: set the mode when you create the plan, not in week 8. A mid-cycle change gives you two periods scored under different rules in the same plan, and the comparison becomes apples to oranges. If you do change mid-cycle and need consistency, ask the agent to recompute the affected snapshots — but expect the numbers to shift.

When the agent gets it wrong

The vocabulary is loose, and that’s where mistakes happen. « Flexible » in everyday speech sometimes means « no rules », but in this mode it still tracks macros tightly — it just doesn’t penalize swapping foods. If you say « flexible » and mean « let me eat whatever », the score will still call out days where calories or protein land way off. The mode controls weighting, not whether the plan grades you.

The reverse trap: « structured » doesn’t mean « rigid forever » — it means the foods matter as much as the numbers. Off-plan meals still log; the score just reflects them honestly. If the agent picks the wrong mode for what you described, correct in one sentence: « no, I meant structured — the coach prescribed the foods », and the next score reads with the new weighting.

What makes the right choice

Three things decide whether the mode fits your plan: the plan’s intent matches the mode (coach-prescribed is structured, IIFYM is flexible, casual self-built is default), the score reads what you care about (macros if the numbers are the goal, food coverage if the picks are), and the mode is set early rather than swapped mid-cycle. The system reads the score as the source of truth for adherence; the wrong mode produces an honest number that answers the wrong question. Pick the mode the way you’d describe the plan to a friend, and the weekly review starts telling you the truth.